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Gets better with age This year’s Vintage Days, Hang ‘10, served as the kickoff point for Fresno State’s yearlong, centennial celebration Thousands of people from all over the community passed through the Maple Mall during Vintage Days, April 15-18.

Every year, the event serves as a venue for live music, various games, product retailers and food booths.

This year started with a casino night on Thursday.

Friday’s main feature was Salsa Beach, a dance lesson followed by performances and an open dance floor.

A themed olympic games and battle of the bands headlined Saturday.

The final afternoon wrapped up with an awards ceremony.

Vintage Days, in its current incarnation, has been a Fresno State tradition since 1975.

The 2010 theme was Hang ‘10.

Next year’s events, taking place during the 100th-year celebration of Fresno State, are planned for April 14-17.

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Instructors see digital divide Digital Campus representatives say online classes just as good

By Joe Bailey The Collegian The Digital Campus (DC) at Fresno State is designed to enrich courses by offering an online aspect to every course that uses Blackboard or other online resources, officials said.

Wi t h v a s t a m o u n t s o f information available to students and faculty through the Inter net, the director of Digital Campus, Brent Auernheimer, is in charge of making sure that everything runs as smoothly as possible.

“Digital Campus supports online teaching and learning,” Auer nheimer said. “From doing the technical system administration and configuration of Blackboard, to helping faculty develop online classes, to figuring out why students or faculty are having problems with Blackboard or other academic technology.”

All of these services are in place to complement and enhance various lear ning styles.

Auernheimer said that all types of students have used DC and many different pro-

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grams can benefit from using the system.

“Universities in general are finding that their on-campus students are also their online students,” Auernheimer said.

“It also varies by discipline.

Online works better for some more than others.”

Auernheimer has seen the

progression of DC at Fresno State since he came here in 1986 as a computer science professor.

“I’ve been interested in using technology for teaching and learning for a long time,” Auernheimer said. “I really like hybrid classes where we meet half of the time in the

classroom face to face, and the other half doing things online.”

Lynda Harding, the former director of DC, said that some faculty members are reluctant to use DC. “Many faculty members See DIGITAL, Page 6

Connect Day counselors aid incoming frosh

By Nu Vang The Collegian Incoming freshmen and transfer students familiarized themselves with Fresno State Saturday morning as they participated in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Connect Day. EOP staff members wanted to connect, inspire and prepare the students as they begin their journey as a university student.

John Lor, an EOP counselor, said about 75 students and their parents were expected to participate in the event as group strengthening activities, administration requirements and Dog Days information were presented.

“One thing about success is you have to know individuals on campus. You have to have mentors, you have to know what resources are available,” Lor said.

The program provides counseling and workshops to firstgeneration, low-income and educationally disadvantaged students.

Incoming freshman Rene Mancinas attended the event over the weekend and said he was able to meet new people and become comfortable with the campus.

Mancinas, who attended Crescent View Charter High School in Fresno, said he lear ned there were other options to pay for college such as loans and financial aid.

Samantha Arreola, an incoming freshmen from Porterville, said she expected to lear n more about the program.

“I’m stressing coming to college,” Arreola said. “And they say that they’re going to be there, and I can always go talk to them.”

The senior at Granite Hills High School said she learned she should cap working to 20 hours per week and set studying as the priority during an informational.

Victor Olivares, the coordinator for EOP’s Summer Bridge Program, said one of the biggest obstacles freshmen come across during their first semester is understanding the demands of the university as compared to high school.

“In high school, they pretty much lay out your controls, and somewhat [your] senses, by tardy bells and those kinds of things. Here you’re pretty much on your own,” Olivares said.

Olivares said that it could become very dif ficult and stressful to manage four threeunit classes when three hours of reading are expected per unit.

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California’s big mistake P

arole is an integral part of any criminal justice system. But, California decided to throw it out the window a few months back.

As it turns out, maybe that decision wasn’t such a good idea. Surprise, surprise.

Fresno’s ABC 30 ran a story on April 7 about a new law that was implemented in January that allows criminals in California’s state prisons to be released after their sentences without supervised parole.

As is the case with most new laws, there are hidden loopholes that allow things, in this case violent criminals, to slip through the cracks.

The law was only meant for nonviolent offenders to be released without being supervised. However, 250 offenders convicted of sex crimes, involuntary manslaughter and various weapons charges have been released without supervision.

“In a review of some 2,000 records of prisoners who were released without any parole,” the article said, “hundreds were convicted of violent crimes.” Oops.

The story featured some commentary from Assemblyman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance). “I was shocked because we have state prisoners being released without parole supervision, and now walking the streets for some heinous crimes,” Lieu said.

“The department of correc-

Setting it Straight Denton Dubbels tions is not following the letter of the law,” Lieu said. “They have a sex offender walking the streets without parole supervision.”

Who is to blame? Surely not the bumbling state government. How about the department of corrections?

It must be their fault.

“To be criticized on a penal code implementation that we didn’t create is not right and is not fair,” said Gordon Hinkle of the California Corrections Department.

For some reason, I was under the impression that we, the citizens, elect officials to govern our state with our best interests in mind. With this particular case, citizens’ lives are now being jeopardized because of this new law.

“The new parole law is supposed to reduce the state prison population by 6,500, and save California $500 million in its first year,” the article said.

Basically, what’s happening is that

some prisoners convicted of violent crimes are serving their sentences and are being released. Nobody will monitor them to make sure they are on their best behavior and become productive citizens.

Parole acts like an insurance policy.

Recently released offenders’ every move are watched under a microscope to make sure that they maintain a strict law-abiding lifestyle. Any little slip, and it’s back to prison.

With this new law, some of these recently released violent criminals may come to the conclusion that they just need to be more allusive and careful, and do whatever it takes to not get caught. Especially, when nobody will be watching.

According to a story from bnet.com, “Fifty-six percent of violent felons are repeat offenders.”

If my math (which has been known to be questionable many times) is correct, slightly more than half of violent offenders either have or will repeat crimes.

The dunces in Sacramento need to figure out a different way to try to save money. Endangering citizens by letting felons out of prison without parole is not the way to do it.

Criminals are supposed to be on parole upon their release. California’s elected politicians should be as well.

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ver spring break, I had the opportunity to visit with old high school friends who, unlike myself, went away to college.

While it was nice to reunite with people I hadn’t seen in several months, I realized that few of them, if any, could understand my decision to stay in town for school.

“Why did you stay?” they asked. “(Insert big city here) is much more exciting than Fresno.”

When it comes to the things that make a city exciting, I tend to agree.

Considering museums, movie theaters, shopping centers and clubs, big cities like New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles have more, plain and simple.

But we Fresno kids have a few things bigger cities don’t.

For one, we have the mountains.

We have a great view of the Sierra Nevadas (not every day, I’ll admit), but we have a two-hour drive to the slopes, as opposed to those in larger cities, who have to drive much longer to go snowboarding or hiking.

We have Clovis Unified School District (CUSD). Yes, for those of us

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who grew up in Clovis Unified, it was more than a little frustrating to put up with the dress code and the seemingly endless amount of rules. But despite these frustrations, CUSD turns out the most well-prepared students of any public school district in the state.

According to a recent article in Fresno Magazine, 60 percent of Clovis Unified students go on to college, a considerably higher statistic than many other school districts in the state.

We also have Fresno State, a university that brings the entire city together over football games, Vintage Days and concerts at the Save Mart Center (Taylor Swift, anyone?).

The fact that we, as a school, are almost 100 years old speaks to our ability to stick out the tough times, times that were even harder than what we’re going through now: The Great Depression, two World Wars and the political and social turmoil of the ‘60s and ‘70s all threw curveballs at every American, including those who lived in Fresno. Fresno State stuck around through it all, and has continued to be an entity that the rest of the city rallies around.

We have the Fresno Grizzlies, anoth-

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The Collegian wins two CCMA first place awards There’s always a time for a little shameless self promotion. For us, that time is now. The Collegian won two first place California College Media Awards and 11 overall this weekend. (Including first place in the Editorial Division—score!)

Congratulations students, you have an award-winning newspaper. Feel special.

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Fresno Grizzlies win home opener The 2-1 Grizzlies victory drew a crowd of 13,852, the third largest crowd in the history of the AAA squad. How nice to be able to watch players only a step away from seeing major league action.

It is part of what makes Fresno so great!

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er rallying point for the city. I grew up going to Grizzlies games every spring, and now that I’m in college, it’s fun to go to a game with friends who didn’t have baseball teams in their hometowns.

Like every city, Fresno has its faults. A lot of my friends left town to go to college to escape the bad air, the crime and the feeling that there wasn’t enough to do here. I grew up here, I know the problems Fresno has.

But what city doesn’t have problems? A city is only as good as the people in it. And, despite all the city’s problems, I’ve found that the people here are good people, from the wealthiest residents in town to the homeless, and everyone in between.

Fresno isn’t the most glamorous or exciting city, but it is a city built on the backs of hard-working people who do the best they can for themselves and their families. And that’s enough for me.

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The daily crossword

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis Los Angeles Times

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23 Haberdashery accessory 24 URL ending for 52-Across 25 Minnesota players from old Bangkok?

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10 Destroy 11 Pesky biter 12 Throws wide of the base, say 13 Sailor’s “Mayday!”

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CONCERT REVIEW

By Danielle Gilbert The Collegian Generally, indie-rock shows lack unpredictability.Concert goers are typically treated to an overplayed sing-a-long, overpriced merchandise and “that guy,� who overkills the air drum.

But, after Saturday’s soldout show at The Catalyst, in Santa Cruz, Calif., the French band Phoenix is anything but predictable.

Although the concert opened with the shoegaze-pop band Princeton, Phoenix proved that the French do indeed do it best.

Phoenix took its second set list to another level after frontman Thomas Mars sang every Phoenix fans’ favorite single “1901,� from the venue’s balcony, which housed a geographically diverse, 4-20 friendly audience.

Even the most skeptical listeners were lured toward the stage from the entrance as the ambient-pop piano tap of the track “Lisztomania,� kicked off the show.

The title of the song derives from the 19th Century German pianist Franz Liszt, an urbane

artist who would bewitch women with his piano skills.

As a result, the German romantic poet Christian Johann Heinrich Heine coined the term Lisztomania.

The set list also included the nine alternate tracks from the band’s ‘80s inspired fourth

album “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.� As well as a few hits from their third album “It’s Never Been Like That.�

While Princeton passes through Fresno to open for the French band Camera Obscura at the Cellar Door Tuesday night, Phoenix entered Indigo, Calif. for the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

The Catalyst and the Outdoor Theatre were the band’s only California stops on the recently updated tour schedule.

It’s a shame that Starline, the Exit or even the Save Mart Center didn’t make the cut.

Maybe next year Fresno.

Photo courtesy of Jeffrey M. Boos / Ultimate Phoenix Fan

More than 800 fans filled the underground nightclub The Catalyst, in Santa Cruz, Calif. April 17 to watch French-pop band perform a live set.

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Program to tour India, discuss art forms

By Tara Albert The Collegian

Photo Courtesy of Joan Sharma

Madhubani Art will be the focal point of the India Tour. Madhubani is a cluster of villages in northern Bihar State, just south of the Nepal border

Students will have a unique opportunity to learn about a country and one of its major art forms during next year’s winter break.

T he Colle g e of Ar t and Humanities is offering a tour of India from Dec. 27 to Jan. 12, 2011. Participants will visit various historical sites, interact with local artists and make their own art.

Joan K. Sharma is the associate professor in the art and design department and the codirector of the tour.

She said the main focus of the tour will be Madhubani Art, one of the oldest painting forms in the world.

Madhubani paintings were traditionally done on walls and floors, but after a drought in the 1960s, artists started painting on paper to sell their artwork for supplemental income, Sharma said.

The program will feature a five-day workshop with artists from the Madhubani region, Sharma said. Santosh Das, a prominent Indian artist, will co-direct the art workshop with Sharma. He and other artists will present their work and discuss the techniques they use.

Tour participants will have the opportunity to try their hand at the painting style for the first three days of the workshop. During the remaining two days, students will have the opportunity to visit artists in their homes and watch them work.

Sharma said the workshop and the chance to see artists at work make the tour unlike other trips, where tourists only travel to and learn about important sites in an area.

“It’s a very unique trip,”

Sharma said. “This is directly connected to a very old artistic tradition in the region.”

Travelers will also visit some important sites and buildings in India, such as the Taj Mahal and various religious temples, Sharma said.

Joan’s husband, Brijesh Sharma, will give tours at certain locations and teach participants about the important information of each destination.

“I will be giving a preview and the general history in the bus,” Brijesh said.

Participants will also have some free after noons to explore the area on their own, Sharma said.

Shar ma said most meals will be buffet style, with various types of food. Participants will have a range of choices, including Indian, Continental and Asian food.

Sky Sweet, an English teacher at Duncan Polytechnical High School, participated in a previous tour of India that the Sharmas led during the winter break of 2006-2007. She said it was a wonderful experience, and plans to attend the upcoming tour.

“It was absolutely fabulous,” Sweet said. “I loved the trip.”

Sweet said India is an unusual and overwhelming place.

“It’s not like any place you have ever been,” Sweet said.

“It is an extraordinary country. The colors and the smells of the food are very dramatic.”

She said the Indian people were hospitable and welcoming.

“They really wanted you to enjoy their country,” Sweet said.

She said the Sharmas were fabulous tour guides, because they were knowledg eable about Indian history and culture.

“I don’t think I ever would have had this experience with other people,” Sweet said. “It was an amazing trip.”

Sweet said she always felt safe and had what she needed.

“They really took care of us,” she said. “They made sure that we had everything we needed.”

Sweet said she highly recommends the tour, and students should jump on the opportunity to travel to India.

“I think everybody needs to go there at least once,” Sweet said.

Sweet suggested that participants be prepared to walk often and for long distances.

“You need a really good pair of walking shoes,” she said.

“You do such an incredible amount of walking.”

Judy Lynn also attended the previous tour. She said India was unlike any other place she has traveled to.

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DIGITAL: ‘No signif- INDIA: Features a five-day workshop with icant difference’ Madhubani artists CONTINUED from page 5

CONTINUED from page 1 remain concerned about the quality of online courses,” Harding said. “They also perceive online courses as requiring more work to develop and teach.”

“There was a recent De par tment of Education publication about how hybrid classes are probably the most effective mode,” Auernheimer said. “For a long time there’s been a ‘no significant difference’ phenomenon that online and traditional classes are equally effective.”

Harding added that Fresno State is ahead of the national curve in regards to online learning according to the 2008 Sloan-APLU national survey about Online Learning.

“Our campus was above average in the number of online courses developed and taught by faculty, and substantially higher than average in faculty ratings of support for online teaching and learning,” Harding said.

Auer nheimer said cheating has not necessarily been a greater problem for online classes.

“We haven’t seen a lot of difference, although cheating takes dif ferent for ms depending on delivery mode,” Auernheimer said. “Faculty can choose to use plagiarism detection software, like TurnItIn.com, that is integrated with Blackboard. Or faculty can have an in-person final exam and check IDs.” Online courses can also be perceived as more cost-effective than traditional classrooms since more students

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can fit in one online class than a traditional classroom.

“That probably isn’t true since online classes have faculty just like traditional classes do,” Auer nheimer said. “Higher education is a personnel-intensive business.

There can be efficiencies and increased convenience by offering online classes, but I don’t think you’ll find a lot of cost savings.”

Harding agreed that completing a lot of the technological tasks can end up raising the costs of instruction.

“T here are ways to use technology to save money,” Harding said. “At least in highenrollment courses, but they require off-loading, to technology or student assistants, some of the work currently done by faculty members. As Brent points out, the main cost of instruction is faculty time, and that’s at least as true for online courses as for faceto-face courses.”

In fall 2009, there were 155 fully online classes, eight hybrid and 3,343 traditional classes that had a Blackboard presence. This semester there were 123 fully online courses, one hybrid and 3,371 traditional courses with blackboard.

For the future of DC the plan is to upgrade to Blackboard version 9.1 over the summer.

beyond the landscape, the food and the culture, India will give that to you,” she said.

Lynn said the opportunity to stay in the Madhubani area and learn about the art form will make the upcoming trip even better than the previous tour.

“That is going to be a really good added feature to this tour,” she said.

The weather in India can be very nice with most days reaching the mid-70s, Lynn said.

“It was very pleasant, and there was no humidity,” she said.

Students will receive three units for the 109T India Tour class offered in the program.

Sharma suggested that students talk to their advisors to figure out what course requirement the units would fulfill. Students will be graded on a 10-page paper that is due about a month after a student returns from the tour.

She said students should not hesitate to sign up for the trip, because this may be the only opportunity to lear n about Madhubani Art in its place of origin.

“This particular trip may be a one-time trip,” she said.

Tour participants do not

have to be students in the art department to attend, and do not need any artistic ability. The program is meant to expose participants to an art form.

“It’s more about learning about the tradition,” Sharma said.

The trip costs $3,295, which includes round-trip flights, hotels, food, transportation in India, daily rations of bottled water, entrances into museums and more. Sharma said the fee does not include the travel insurance premium, tips for guides and drivers, and any personal expenses.

Sharma said people should sign up and make the advance deposit of $250 by May 15. The final balance and travel insurance premium will be due by Sept. 27.

The tour is open to the public and has room for 30 people to attend.

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Budget cuts nix faculty salary increases

By Collegian Staff The Califor nia State U n ive r s i t y ( C S U ) s y s t e m announced Friday that the negotiations for the 2008-09 salary issues with an in-state teaching unit have concluded.

A neutral panel found that no General Salary Increases or across-the-board Service Salary Increases were possible with the current budget situation within the California Faculty Association. The CFA represents 23,000 faculty personnel at the CSU’s 23 campuses.

The CSU had proposed to distribute about $1.7 million in unspent roll over funds, but the offer was rejected by the CFA, said Shirley Armbruster, the director of University Communications.

The administration and faculty union were unable to reach an agreement through mediation, but agreed to the neutral panel, Ar mbruster said. However, the panel’s findings are not binding, and can be rejected by either the administration of CFA. The CSU’s general fund support has been cut by $625 million over the past two years, resulting in reduced enrollment, two day per month e m p l o ye e f u rl o u g h s a n d increased student fees.

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The Collegian • Sports Sports Editor, Brianna Campbell • collegian-sports@csufresno.edu

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‘Dogs bounce back The Bulldogs battle back later in the weekend to split with Louisiana Tech in a four-game series.

By Megan Morales The Collegian The Fresno State baseball team overcame a tumultuous start to its four-game series this weekend against Louisiana Tech by salvaging a 2-2 split.

Neither team struggled with the bats, as they combined for a total of 69 runs in the series.

Fresno State lost the first two games, 13-6 and 13-5, only to turn it around and win the next two games 14-4 and 12-2.

The bulldogs were resilient, and were pleased to come back and win the final two games of the series.

“We lost two quick ones at the beginning, Friday and the first game Saturday. But it felt good to come out last night and win, and then come back again on a Sunday when everyone is beat up and tired and finish what we needed to do,” first baseman Jordan Ribera said.

Ribera continued to produce at the plate, belting his 15th homerun of the season and

helping the bulldogs to a victory in the final game of the series.

“It was a good feeling,” Ribera said of his homerun.

“More importantly it felt good to come out and win today.”

Coach Batesole attributes Ribera’s offensive success this season to his improved ability

lem is on game day they’re not going to give you any pitches when you’re as big and strong as he is.”

After the four-game series with Louisiana Tech, Fresno State is now 22-16 overall and 5-3 in conference play.

The weekend was also highlighted by leadoff hitter Danny Muno who drew eight walks in the four games, and surpassed the previous school record of 146 career walks. He now has 148 walks as a bulldog and leads the team with 31 this season.

The bulldogs had its — Jordan Ribera, best pitching performance in game four First Baseman from Charlie Robertson.

The sophomore pitcher recorded a career-high to hit outside pitches. nine strikeouts and held the “You’ve seen how many balls Louisiana Tech offense to only he’s hit for extra base hits to two runs in the 12-2 victory. the opposite field,” Batesole “I liked the way Charlie said. “He had a big double last threw the ball,” Batesole said. night, homerun to the opposite “He had outstanding movefield today, and that’s been the ment today. He was starting a difference. You can always hit lot of pitches out of the zone the ball as far as you want to and bringing them back into on the pull side, but the probthe zone, and made some big

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ore importantly, it felt good to come out and win today.”

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Jordan Ribera hit his 15th home run this season on Sunday afternoon against Louisiana Tech, moving him up to third in the nation.

pitches when he had to. He got in some trouble, and that’s what you like to see out of your starting pitchers, when they get in trouble they can get in and out of it and that was the

key to the whole day.”

Up next, the bulldogs hit the road for a four-game series against the Nevada Wolf Pack April 23-25.

Track & Field

Basketball

@ Sacramento State Mondo Invitational Senior Val-Pierre Dai’Re picked up his second straight silver medal as in many weeks.

Dai’Re finished in second place, running 48.68 seconds in the 400 meter hurdles.

Freshman Jordan Smith, set a career-best, clearing six feet and four inches in the high jump. With his jump, Smith moved up to fifth place in the WAC. Sophomore Latrisha Jordan finished in first place in the 400 meters, with a time of 24.39 seconds.

The track and field team will compete next at the Brutus H a m i l t o n I nv i t at i o n a l i n Berkeley, Calif., before coming home to host the team’s only meet of the year, the Fresno State Duals.

Wi t h s o p h o m o r e P a u l George declaring early for the NBA Draft, head coach Steve Cleveland brought in two recruits to potentially fill the void.

Two players signed National Letters of Intent to play baske t b a l l fo r F re s n o S t at e.

Cleveland landed one of the best shooters in the nation, point guard Kevin Olekaibe from Las Vegas.

Olekaibe led the entire state of Nevada in scoring, averaging 35.6 points a game. He finished his senior season at Cimarron-Memorial High School as the nation’s No. 5 scorer. Olekaibe leaves high school as the state’s secondleading scorer of all time.

Cleveland also signed small forward Bracken Funk. The 6-foot-8 Funk, led his high school team to three straight Utah state championships.

went on to capture the points in doubles play.

Freshmen Bianca Modoc and Melissa McQueen each collected a win for the ‘Dogs in singles play.

The team finally comes home to host Cal Poly on April 24, for Senior Day.

Women’s Tennis vs. Louisiana Tech and Boise State Final: 1-1 (4-0, 3-4) The women’s tennis team started conference play on Saturday on a high note, sweeping Louisiana Tech, 4-0, but ended the last game of WAC play with a loss, losing to Boise State, 3-4.

Against Louisiana Tech, the doubles team swept the field.

In singles play, the ‘Dogs won three matches. Singles players Laura Pole, Melissa McQueen and Renata Kucerkova each won for the ‘Dogs.

The ‘Dogs fell to Boise State in the final game of conference play. The teams split matches in singles play, but Boise State

Softball vs. San Jose State Final: 2-1 (2-1, 4-0, 0-1) S o p h o m o re d u a l - t h re at , Michelle Moses, led the team to two wins over San Jose State this past weekend at SJSU Field. The softball team won the series taking two games, beating the Spartans 2-1, 4-0 and losing the final game, 0-1.

The ‘Dogs won their third straight Wester n Athletic Conference (WAC) series.

Fresno State improved its record in conference play to 9-3, which places the team in second place in the WAC standings.

Moses continued her hot streak, collecting her seventh win of the season. She pitched a complete game, allowing two hits and a run in seven innings of service. Moses struck out six players.

Moses also dominated as a batter. Over the weekend, she blasted three home runs that led to both Bulldog victories.

The softball team will look to continue its dominance in WAC play when it hosts New Mexico State at Bulldog Stadium at April 23.

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Battle of the

‘Dogs

Jamel Hamler (left) and Devon Wylie (right) battle for a starting spot on the offensive line to make an impact for the ‘Dogs in the fall 2010 season.

Photos By Brianna Campbell / The Collegian

For Bulldogs, spring scrimmage means position battles

By Vongni Yang The Collegian For the first time this year, Bulldog Stadium was filled with players on the field and fans in the stands.

The Fresno State football team held its first intrasquad scrimmage this past Saturday at Jim Sweeney Field.

Head football coach Pat Hill said he liked the intensity the team showed during the scrimmage.

“I like the way they were for the time this spring. I thought it was a good practice,” Hill said.

Position battles were evident, as many of the younger players seized the opportunity to make an impression on their coaches. There were a number of freshmen and sophomores

trying to prove to coaches that they deserve playing time come fall.

“We got a lot of good young reps,” Hill said. “That’s what its all about.”

With the loss of last season’s top pass-catcher, Seyi Ajirotutu, and senior receivers Marlon Moore, Darren Newborn and Chastin West, the ‘Dogs are looking to fill the voids with younger players for the position.

Wi d e r e c e i v e r J a m e e l Hamler emerged as a potential starter with his performance Saturday.

The 6-foot-1, 205-pound junior grabbed two touchdown receptions during the scrimmage.

He also displayed his athleticism, turning a short pass into a 57-yard catch and run.

As a reserve last season, Hamler finished second on the

team with 37 receptions for 503 yards and five touchdowns.

Hamler has been preparing all spring to fill in as a starting receiver.

“I’m playing as if I’m the starter,” Hamler said. “Just because I want to go out there, get the ball and make plays.”

Competing with Hamler are wide receivers Devon Wylie and Rashad Evans.

Wylie has been a key contributor each of the past three seasons. However, he has missed several g ames to injuries every year as a Bulldog.

As a junior in 2009, the speedster hauled in 17 receptions for 259 yards and four touchdowns.

During the scrimmage, Wylie demonstrated his elusiveness and quickness throughout. He caught short passes and took two end-arounds for a first

down.

“I like the play of Wylie,” said receivers coach Keith Williams. “He’s a big play guy and he made a big play today.

We need him to make big plays on a consistent basis.”

After redshirting last year, Evans will look to make an impact as a slot receiver for the ‘Dogs. As a true freshman in 2008, the explosive Evans reeled in 21 catches for 232 yards.

Also competing for playing time this spring will be receivers A.J. Johnson, Matt Lindsey and J.J. Stallworth.

“I love the progress [of the receivers], they’re working hard on and off the field and in the classroom,” Williams said.

“They’re watching enough film [and] they’re studying the playbook. We just have to ring it onto the field and execute at

a higher level.”

The defensive backfield is also looking to plug in young players at core positions.

Redshir t freshmen Erik Brown, J.B. Dock and L.J. Jones are each being asked to compete for playing time.

Jones possessed ball-hawking skills during Saturday’s scrimmage; the cornerback broke up a few passes including an impressive pass deflection on a fade route in the corner of the end zone. Jones also displayed toughness, coming up to defend in run support.

“I think he’s going to be a good player,” Hill said of Jones. “I thought he played well ag ainst our star ting receivers.”